It’s also an attraction I’ve had to being around when other people understand something. And the lower class are the people who think, dwell on their thoughts and exchange ideas.Īnd I’ve taken this job because I’ve always been very very interested in education and part of that has been an attraction I’ve had to the exchange of ideas. I’ve always believed and I continue to believe that the elite of the world are the people who make things. I’ve gone from somebody who’s an honest maker of objects to that rather dubious person who thinks all the time, speaks and writes. Richard Benson Well it’s huge transition. John Paul Caponigro The transition to Dean of the Yale art department has been good? He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships (1979, 1986), the MacArthur (1986), as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1982) and the Eakins Press Foundation.īorn on November 8, 1943, in Newport, Rhode Island, Benson studied sculpture at the Art Students’ League in New York, drawing with Robert Lamb in Providence, Rhode Island and spent many years working with Leslie George Katz of the Eakins Press Foundation. Since 1979, Benson has taught at Yale University where he is a professor of photography, and currently the Dean of the Yale University School of Art. Several books of Benson’s writing are forthcoming. Lay this Laurel features photographs by Richard Benson and text by Lincoln Kirstein. His accomplishments include Atget (MOMA) the Gilman, Native Nations (Callaway), Lee Friedlander’s American Monument, One Eyed Cat, Factory Valleys, and Flowers and Trees. In recent years he has been working on the relationship between the computer and traditional photographic imagery, and has been applying the lessons from this in the production of long run offset books of work by different photographers, in both black and white and color.Ĭonsidered one of the finest printers of photographic books. Working in these different mediums, sometimes learning forgotten crafts and sometimes creating new ones, he has become convinced that ink and the modern photo offset press possess a potential for photographic rendition beyond anything else previously known. Benson has a broad range of interests in the photographic print–silver, platinum, palladium, and ink. Benson is a photographer, printer and educator who utilizes photographic processing techniques of the past and present.
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